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Listening

by Sr. Sheila Campbell   MMM  Ireland   14.06.2022 The other day I wanted to read and I wanted to sew at the same time.  Bother!  I needed my eyes for the sewing, so I set myself up with an audio book instead of reading and I sat down for a […]

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Family Life Today

By Sr. Prisca Ovat, MMM        Kenya        12.06.2022 Everyone is born into a family, not by choice, but divine plan. Through the family unit, we learn to appreciate where we are, its goodness and complexities. Pope Francis published the encyclical – Amoris Laetitia, modelling the […]

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Smiles

 by Mary Coffey  AMMM        Ireland        10.06.2022   A newborn baby is expected to reach certain key developmental milestones. One such milestone is that a baby should “smile with meaning” at six weeks. That means a smile that can focus, and it is a cause […]

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#BeHumanKind: With the Red Cross

by Sr, Ese Idogen MMM        Nigeria           08.06.2022 Just recently, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement celebrated its one hundred and fifty-nine years of foundation. I decided to look through the pages of some of the national societies on the internet. When […]

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Vocation

by Sr. Jo Anne Kelly  MMM      Ireland       06.06.2022 Vocation –A call from God, Everyone gets that call. In the scripture for Vocation Sunday we read: “The Lord said I have made you a Light for the nations”  Who would not want to be a shining light […]

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Being at Home

by unknown MMM author   Undated     Ireland   04.06.2022 ‘There’s no place like home’, or ‘home is where the heart is’ are expressions we regularly hear and use. Yet when Mary set out to visit Elizabeth she left her own home. The bewildering news she had herself received and the news […]

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Looking out the window

by Sr. Sheila Campbell, MMM   Ireland   02.06.2022 Here I am, sitting in my armchair and just looking out the window. What do I see? Just an ordinary street scene. There is a man from the house opposite unloading boxes from his car. A woman and her two small children pass […]

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Feast of the Visitation – MMM @ 85

by Sr. Prisca Ovat MMM     Kenya      31.05.2022 Awakening to this beautiful day, and conscious of the great day which we celebrate, a day without which none would be here, we pondered on an invitation from the Congregational Leader to “ dream of where we will be 85 […]

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Thank you

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM     Ireland     29.05.2022 This morning I came across a quote from Meister Eckhart: “If the only prayer you say in your entire life is ‘thank you,’ that is enough. I stopped to look at those words because I am aware of how much in […]

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Ten Young Women

by Sr. Liana de Jesus  MMM       Brazil/Kenya         27.05.2022 The international MMM postulancy community in Nairobi, Kenya is composed of ten young women who are at the beginning stages of learning what religious life is all about.  It is a time of discernment, when each young […]

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